Mammoet has started joint efforts with Sumitomo Mitsui Construction and FHECOR Ingenieros Consultores to develop an innovative installation system for onshore wind turbines and towers. The self-climbing installation technology erects each wind turbine tower in sections, allowing them to reach to greater heights and more reliable winds. Mammoet said that as towers stretch towards 200 metres, fewer and fewer cranes have the reach necessary to perform turbine assembly on land. Therefore, developers have looked at alternative assembly methodologies such as climbing cranes or huge tower cranes, but these are not available the market. Crawler cranes currently used are not specifically designed for onshore wind farm constructions, it said.